Department of Information Technology is committed to provide Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) governance to its citizens and it plays significant role in skill development activities. The State believes that every citizen has a right to information pertaining to his own welfare needs and opportunities, to understand the process of governance and to know the rationale behind the decisions, which the State Government takes.

The State also believes that Information Technology has changed the way we live and do business, and that Information Technology has huge potential in ensuring timely delivery of citizen services. The state Government of Jharkhand recognizes the power and potential of these technologies on the lives of the people. We believe that the development in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be effectively leveraged to deliver a variety of information and services to the citizens effectively and efficiently. Accordingly, the Government has drawn up an ambitious plan to use the power of Information Technology (IT) to effectively deliver information and services to its citizens. Computerization of various departments, which the Government has taken up recently, aims at achieving this objective of effective and quick delivery of information and services to the citizens.